DELIGHT

Delight:  “great pleasure”

I’ve noticed when watching old sitcoms that the words “delighted” and “delightful” are used a good bit in their conversations.  Mothers such as Beaver’s mother and Cathy Anderson’s mother use it frequently.  I don’t.  However, some days I wish I could be tidy like June Cleaver and Cathy Anderson’s mother but I'm delighted most days to just hang around the house in my comfort clothes. 

Back before The Girl got married, our refrigerator sprung a leak.  We noticed a slight buckling of the hardwood floor in the kitchen and, after investigation, found the leak.  Then right before revival a couple of months later, the floor between my sink and island began to really rise up.  In a VERY short time, it looked like this:

It was like walking over a mountain. The Husband began to look for another leak.  Surely it couldn't be coming from the refrigerator again but he decided to look there first as it would be the easiest fix.   Well, lo and behold, it was the refrigerator.  Again.  A whole different problem this time.  We had the frig repaired and decided to wait and see if the floor would go back down to it’s original shape.  It didn’t.  It was to the point that it was a real problem so I came up with a temporary solution that looked like this:

Am I clever or what?  It worked for me.  Eventually though when we were assured the boards were not going down, we did research and decided to make a homeowner’s claim.  The adjuster came last week.  She began to snap photos as soon as she came up the walk – not of my kitchen floor but of this in my front yard:

Talk about delight!  These deer have been coming in my yard for a long time on a regular basis and almost have a pet-like quality.  Yes, I love them.   I love them almost as much as I love the birds.  Not quite but almost.  And we all know how much The Husband loves looking at deer.  Deer are a DELIGHT for him in it’s finest form.   Oh and in case you are wondering, my first experience with an insurance homeowners adjuster turned out to be a good one.  Of course, how good is yet to be determined pending communication yet to come.  But I am encouraged.

On that day, I kept a watch out the storm door while the adjuster did her work in the kitchen.  Then I noticed that another mother and baby deer had come into the yard to visit with the first ones.  Those little spotted deer were running around on their little skinny legs playing with each other with no worries or fears.   It was a total DELIGHT to me.  I can’t begin to tell you how my face smiled and my heart felt such joy.  They were like children playing in the yard playing tag. I laughed with utter delight and found it hard to take my eyes away from the scene.

As in so many of my experiences of late, I am reminded that the Lord wants me as a child of His to be happy and joyful in the life that I have.  And I know that that life can only be truly fulfilled if I am in His will.   I am reminded by those little deer that God in his infinite wisdom and knowledge created all things and instilled in them what they needed to live the life that He intended.  I am reminded that many times I fail in doing what He intended for me, often through my busyness of my days or the fatigue of my body.  I need to spend more time with Him and allow Him to delight me through his wisdom and Word. 

I’ll close today with one of my favorite scriptures:

“Delight thyself also in the Lord; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.”

Psalm 37:4

Amen.